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Communities of Possibilities

This was first published on RaceWire. The concept of community is an ever-shifting one. It first becomes applied to movements for social change after World War II, when a dissatisfied social worker Saul Alinksy shifted his efforts into organizing urban communities, based on geographic proximity. He was the first recognizable community organizer that developed a [...]

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Human Geography: A New Journal

Human Geography: A New Journal Published by the Institute for Human Geography Inc, a non-profit charitable foundation incorporated in the State of Massachusetts, US. Mass ID number 000971232 Address: P.O. Box 307, Bolton, Massachusetts, 01740-0307 US Email Address: insthugeog at gmail.com Call for submissions and donations We are starting a new journal in Human Geography [...]

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Emerging Geographies

CONFERENCE CALL FOR PAPERS: Emerging Geographies: Mapping, Tracking, and Tracing Conference Date: April 18, 2008 Deadline for submissions **has been extended** to February 20, 2008 Maps of worlds are often depicted as stories already told, already written. If we acknowledge these geographies as emerging and in process, how can we map, track, and trace these [...]

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    Yvonne Yen Liu is a nerd for the racial justice movement. She lives in Oakland, California. You can write to her at yvonnegrapher at gmail dot com.

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